{"id":4244,"date":"2010-12-18T16:02:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2010-12-18T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T21:06:46","slug":"michele-bachmann-intelligence-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/12\/18\/michele-bachmann-intelligence-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence Redesigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think Republicans could surprise me anymore.  But I must confess to being stunned by Rep. Michele &#8220;Blabbermouth&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2010\/12\/17\/bachmann-to-intelligence-committee\/\">Bachmann&#8217;s  appointment<\/a> by Boehner to the secretive House Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems even Republican insiders share my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1210\/46566.html\">astonishment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bachmann once suggested that Congress should investigate whether Democratic lawmakers were pro- or anti-America, and she&#8217;s been a cable TV favorite because she&#8217;s known for colorful sound bites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On her Facebook page, Tea Party icon Bachmann said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a mother of five biological children and twenty-three foster children I pledge to do whatever I need to do to keep your family, my family, and the United States safe from harm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I feel safer already. But I still had to write this limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence Redesigned<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally make much ado<br \/>\n&#8216;Bout committee appointments. Do you?<br \/>\nBut Intelligence? Bachmann?<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s really a shock men.<br \/>\nI fear for its plunging IQ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think Republicans could surprise me anymore. But I must confess to being stunned by Rep. Michele &#8220;Blabbermouth&#8221; Bachmann&#8217;s appointment by Boehner to the secretive House Intelligence Committee. And it seems even Republican insiders share my astonishment: Bachmann once suggested that Congress should investigate whether Democratic lawmakers were pro- or anti-America, and she&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,14,36,183,719,6,7,3,9,1119,69],"tags":[394,1467,2769,1283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}